Box: 1 Fold: 1 Atchley, Dana W. - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 2 Atchley, Dana W. - Article: "Family Doctor - 1900" Box: 1 Fold: 3 Babbitt, Theodore - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 4 Baker, George Pierce - Correspondence
@ In September 1919, PB, having just received his B.A. from Yale University, enrolled in Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard. "Unquestionably the most influential workshop for young playwrights of the time, the class sent forth a large number of artists that sustained the American dramatic field for decades. Barry was encouraged by Baker, who recognized his potential and set a firm standard of excellence" (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 7).
Box: 1 Fold: 5 Barry, Agnes Mary - Correspondence to Philip Barry
@ Of Mother Agnes, Brendan Gill wrote in the biographical introduction to his book, "States of Grace - Eight Plays by Philip Barry": "Agnes was a delicate, appealing child, drawn early to books. Devout daughter of a devout mother, in her late teens she took her vows as a nun in the Order of the Sacred Heart, rose to a high place in the Order, and today, at eighty-two, is still ardently teaching near Washington, D.C." (Gill, p.9).
Box: 1 Fold: 6 Barry, Agnes Mary - Correspondence w/ Robert Anderson Gaines Box: 1 Fold: 7 Barry, Agnes Mary - Correspondence to David Mays Box: 1 Fold: 8 Barry, Edmund Henry - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 9 Barry, James C., Jr. - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 10 Benet, Rosemary - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 11 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 12 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 13 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Telegrams Box: 1 Fold: 14 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Correspondence to Philip Barry (Copies) Box: 1 Fold: 15 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Related material Box: 1 Fold: 16 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Manuscript Box: 1 Fold: 17 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Manuscripts Box: 1 Fold: 18 Benet, Stephen Vincent - "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (Galleys) Box: 1 Fold: 19 Benet, Stephen Vincent - Article on Box: 1 Fold: 20 Bregy, Katherine - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 21 Bullitt, William C. - Correspondence
@ "Dear Ellen and Phil: You are nice. Carnegies or Owls or Bullitts - you are kind to them all."
Box: 1 Fold: 22 Clune, Henry W. - Correspondence
@ "Here Come the Clowns" tunred up in this morning's mail, and I am enormously pleased to have both the book and inscription on the fly-leaf."
Box: 1 Fold: 23 Cushing, Tom - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 24 Dana, H.W.L. - Correspondence
@ "The last day of the year I saw "Here Come the Clowns."...It seemed to me so good that I could not help feeling terribly sorry that it was not better..."
@ Includes enclosed printed order form for Dana's latest book, "Handbook on Soviet Drama."
Box: 1 Fold: 25 Feade, Tina - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 26 Ford, Edsel - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 27 Foster, Elizabeth & Max - Correspondence Box: 1 Fold: 28 Gill, Brendan - Photograph Box: 1 Fold: 29 Gish, Lillian - Correspondence
@ "Dear Phil: A thousand thanks for the lovely copy of "The Joyous Season." And it will always be for me just that, in all its associations, except time. If only it could have lasted longer."
Box: 1 Fold: 30 Hadley, Morris - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 1 Hepburn, Katherine - Correspondence
@ 1 TL carbon, written to Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner, and PB. Hepburn presents her reasons for withdrawing from "Without Love." (with postmarked envelope 9/7/1942)
@ 1 ACS + envelope to PB and ESB.
Box: 2 Fold: 2 Hepburn, Katherine - Telegrams about Box: 2 Fold: 3 Hepburn, Katherine - Contract: "Philadelphia Story" Box: 2 Fold: 4 Hepburn, Katherine - Contract: "Philadelphia Story" (copy) Box: 2 Fold: 5 Hepburn, Katherine - Photograph Box: 2 Fold: 6 Hepburn, Katherine - Newsclippings about Box: 2 Fold: 7 Hepburn, Katherine - Programs Box: 2 Fold: 8 Lovett, Robert - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 9 Lovett, Adele - Correspondence
Box: 2 Fold: 10 Lunt, Alfred - Correspondence
Box: 2 Fold: 11 McClain, John - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 12 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 13 Murphy, Gerald - Correspondence
@ Includes ALS + envelope from Sara Murphy to ESB, postmarked 11/24/50.
Box: 2 Fold: 14 O'Hara, John - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 15 Reed, Joseph Verner - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 16 Robinson, Lenox - Photograph
@ ANS from Robinson on the reverse of the photograph.
Box: 2 Fold: 17 Scott, Hope and Edgar - Newsclippings
@ These clippings were sent to ESB by H. Gates Lloyd; ALS + envelope included.
Box: 2 Fold: 18 Sheldon, Edward - Telegram Box: 2 Fold: 19 Sherwood, Robert - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 20 Sinclair, Robert - Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 21 Sullivan, Frank - Correspondence
Date: March 1943
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Dana Atchley, friend of PB and ESB. Reference to death of Stephen Vincent Benet. Includes ALS from Bill Atchley.
Publication date: 3/31/1951
DESCRIPTION: Contains copies of an article by Dr. Atchley published in "The New Yorker," entitled, "Family Doctor - 1900."
Date: 4/13/1939
DESCRIPTION: Consists of TLS, 2 pp. from PB's former Yale room-mate and friend Ted Babbitt. The latter apparently introduced ESB to PB. Refers to the success of "Philadelphia Story," as well as to PB possibly presenting some of his manuscripts to Yale.
Date: 11/12/1934
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from Professor Baker to PB with reference to employment for a young actor, Joseph Curtin. In the same letter, Curtin adds an ANS to PB introducing himself.
Datespan: 7/5/33-9/7/35
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS + envelopes from PB's sister written to PB. References to death of their older brother, Edmund Henry Barry (died 11/27/1934; see ALS 11/27/34).
Datespan: 1/10/72-6/12/72
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 ALS from Agnes Barry to Gaines, a doctoral student writing his dissertation on PB. Includes 3 ALS + envelopes from Gaines.
Datespan: 11/17/70-1/15/71
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 ALS to David Mays, associate professor at Florida Technological University, Orlando, Fla., interested in writing a biography on PB. Includes 3 TLS + envelopes from Mays.
Datespan: 7/9/32-11/13/34
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS, 3 TLS + envelopes from PB's older brother. References to family matters including the High School graduation of Edmund's son, Bob, and the birth of PB's daughter Mary Ellen (who died within a year). Other concerns relate to the building company owned by James C. Barry, their father, and continued by Edmund and James C. Barry, Jr. Also, references to several of PB's plays including "The Animal Kingdom," "The Joyous Season," and "Bright Star."
Datespan: 11/27/34-12/27/48
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS + envelopes from PB's brother to PB. Refers to the heart attack and death of their older brother Edmund Henry. Refers also to some of PB's plays: the favorable reception of PB's latest play, "Bright Star"; the completion and prospective productions of "Figure of a Girl" (originally an adaptation of Pierre Aumont's "L'Empereur de Chine," entitled, "My Name is Aquilon,"), and "The Second Threshold."
Date: March 1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS + envelopes from Rosemary Benet, wife of Stephen Vincent Benet.
Datespan: 12/22/32-7/7/41
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS + envelopes; 1 ALS undated from Benet to PB.
Undated; c.1930-1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 TLS + 1 TMsS of a poem by Benet. The latter was apparently sent to PB when his play, "Here Come the Clowns," received bad notices from the critics. The poem was published in "Selected Letters of Stephen Vincent Benet," edited by Charles A. Fenton. Benet's correspondence is primarily in response to the theme of PB's latest play, "Here Come the Clowns," and includes much interesting and literary commentary on the "wars in Heaven" between good and evil. Also, references to "The Philadelphia Story," as well as the prospective production of Benet's own play, "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
Dates: c. 2/1931 - 3/1931
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 telegrams from Benet and his wife Rosemary. Includes regards to Katherine Hepburn and her sister Peg.
Datespan: c.1930-1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains copies of correspondence from Benet to PB (includes xerox copies and carbons of typed transcriptions). Many of the originals have been included in the preceding folders of Benet correspondence. Includes ANS to ESB from Charles Fenton, editor of "Selected Letters of Stephen Vincent Benet" (Yale University Press, 1960).
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcript of a letter written by PB to the Saturday Review of Literature concerning one of his last conversations with Benet before the latter's death. The topic was half-jestingly, an appropriate epitaph for Benet.
Date: 6/19/49
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMs of a poem written for PB, dated June 18, 1949, beginning: "Dear Phil, Here Come the Clowns to toast you..."
Postmarked 7/15/35
DESCRIPTION: Contains ANS + envelope from Benet enclosing 3 pp. of AMss of verse.
Copyrighted 1938/1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains complete galley proofs for Benet's one-act opera. Dedicated to PB and ESB with autograph inscription by Benet.
Published November 1942
DESCRIPTION: Contains an issue of "House & Garden" magazine containing an article on the Benet family home (pp.36-37). Pictures included.
Datespan: 5/31/41-6/13/41
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from Catholic author Katherine Bregy to PB concerning his plays - mentions "Liberty Jones," and "Here Come the Clowns." Includes enclosed article by Bregy on PB entitled, "Philip Barry, Paradox and Poet" (clipping from "America" magazine, May 31, 1941).
Date: 4/12/43
DESCRIPTION: Contains brief TLS + envelope from Bullitt, US ambassador to the USSR (1933-36) and to France (1936-40).
Date: 3/7/40
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS, 2pp., + envelope from writer Henry W. Clune to PB.
Datespan: 8/2/33-8/26/34
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 TLS, 2 ALS + envelopes from playwright Tom Cushing to PB concerning the former's plays. Includes TL carbon from PB to Cushing (torn). Also includes 1 ALS from Theresa Helburn of the Theatre Guild, Inc., to whom PB had sent one of Cushing's scripts, entitled, "The Old Adam."
Date: 1/3/39
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS + envelope to PB with lengthy commentary on "Here Come the Clowns":
Datespan: 6/14/34-12/13/34
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS + envelopes from Feade to PB.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from writer Edsel Ford to PB: "Dear Philip: Many thanks for the copy of "White Wings" which I am sure I will enjoy. The subject brings to mind a great many situations in the early days of the industry of which I am sure would bear writing about."
Undated: c. February 1934
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 ALS, 2 pp. + 2 postmarked envelopes to PB.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains color photograph of Brendan Gill, author of "States of Grace - Eight Plays by Philip Barry" (1975).
Date: 5/23/1934
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from Gish who starred in "The Joyous Season" when it opened at the Belasco Theatre in New York on January 29, 1934.
Date: 8/21/33
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS, 2 pp., + envelope from the writer Morris Hadley (1894-1979) to PB.
Datespan: 9/7/42-12/30/42
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 ALS, 7pp., written to ESB. Concerns the filming of PB's play, "Without Love." Includes lengthy inquiry concerning the possibility of a holiday in Hobe Sound for Spencer Tracy who "is a wreck & cannot sleep & is feeling as though he might go mad..."
Datespan: 1/19/43-1/22/43
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 telegrams from Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner, and Harold (Freedman of Brandt & Brandt) concerning Katherine Hepburn's departure from "Without Love." Reference also to Jane Wyatt.
Date: 1/16/39
DESCRIPTION: Contains original typed contract signed between PB, ESB, and Katherine Hepburn regarding motion picture rights for "Philadelphia Story."
Date: 1/16/39
DESCRIPTION: Contains photostat copy of Folder 2:3.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photograph.
Datespan: c.1930-75
DESCRIPTION: Contains newsclippings about Hepburn. One, a Washington Post interview (1975); the other, an article from "Good Housekeeping" showing scenes from the early days of the Theatre Guild.
c.1942-80
DESCRIPTION: Contains programs for "Without Love," and for the musical, "Coco," both starring Katherine Hepburn. The former program includes profiles on PB, Theresa Helburn, Robert E. Jones, Elliott Nugent, Lawrence Langner, and Robert Sinclair.
Datespan: 9/6/39-5/19/50
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 TLS + envelopes and various financial statements concerning the Barrys' assets and Hobe Sound, Fla., property. Lovett was an old Yale friend, a former US under-secretary of state, and at the time of correspondence, a financial investor and advisor. Included, is cover from Time magazine with a picture of Lovett (issue of 3/29/48).
Datespan: 2/24/34-1/5/51
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Mrs. Robert Lovett to PB and ESB.
Date: 1940
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope to PB.
Date: 6/26/41
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS + envelope from McClain to PB.
Date: 3/13/41
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS + envelope to PB and ESB from the screen-writer and film director famous for such films as "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), and "All About Eve" (1951).
Datespan: 6/21/50-11/14/52
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ACS postcards, 1 ALS xerox to ESB. Includes xerox copy of TMs by Gerald Murphy. The Murphys were neighbours of the Barrys in France.
Datespan: 2/16/34-11/10/49
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 TLS + envelopes from the writer and friend of PB. Comments on "The Joyous Season," and on reading "Second Threshold." Particularly TLS dated 11/10/49, 4 pp., O'Hara comments at length on the relationship between PB's character Josiah Bolton and James V. Forrestal, a mutual friend of his and PB's.
Dates: 4/10/41; 8/22/41
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS, TLS + envelopes from Reed (1902-73). Comments on a script (unnamed in letter) that PB sent him to read; and recommending a young woman he knows for employment by PB.
c.1923-51
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photograph of the Irish playwright taken in the garden of the Villa Lorenzo, Cannes. The villa had been a gift from ESB's father, Lorenzo Semple. The Barrys owned the villa from 1923 to 1951 (cf. Gill, p.36).
Dates: April 1984
DESCRIPTION: Contains newsclipping articles about Hope Scott's eightieth birthday celebration. Her husband Edgar Scott was a Yale colleague of PB's. Mrs. Scott was apparently the inspiration for the character of Tracy Lord in PB's "Philadelphia Story."
Date: 1/16/39
DESCRIPTION: Contains telegram from Edward Sheldon (1886-1946), in praise of "War in Heaven."
Datespan: 9/21/50-10/16/50
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS carbons, 1 TLS original from Sherwood, a noted drama critic and former associate editor of "Life" magazine. The letters refer to the production of "Second Threshold," and Clive Brook.
Date: 11/19/1948
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 TLS to PB and 1 TLS to Theresa Helburn signed, "Bob" - most probably, Robert Sinclair, who directed "Phildalphia Story," and "Without Love" for the Theatre Guild. This correspondence concerns staging and casting of "My Name is Aquilon." Includes 2 carbon copies concerning the play, "Memo on changes in script discussed Sunday, which would omit the Toto scene."
Date: 1/25/74
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope to ESB.
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